One of the top art schools is in the U.S. is investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti made out of human waste was found in a gender-neutral bathroom.

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WJAR-TV reports that the Rhode Island School of Design told students the swastika was discovered over the weekend in a dormitory bathroom.

"It's kind of disgusting actually and really sad that somebody would go to that length to kind of express their frustration or some kind of angst or mental disease," student Rory Hernandez said.

The college, known as RISD, says in a statement that the level of "disrespect and vitriol is completely unacceptable." Public safety officials are investigating it as an act of vandalism and a hate crime.

The school says it has met with students on the dorm floor and has encouraged those with information to come forward.

"It's pretty shocking because I think everybody is wondering, you know, who it is," student Cooper Thompson said.